On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 08:09:57 -0500 "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 08 February 2004 02:45 am, Guy Rouillier wrote: > ->I just got a new laptop that has no floppy. With both Mandrake 9.2 > ->32-bit and the AMD64 beta, every time they boot they print out an > insmod->error during "checking for new hardware" because the box has > no floppy->disk drive. Everything appears to work fine, so the > message is just->a minor irritation. How can I tell the kernel not to > look for a floppy->during bootup? The only mention I could find of a > floppy in startup->config files was ide-floppy in devfsd(not booted at > the moment, I think->that was it.) Can I simply remove that? Thanks. > > If you've got everything else going the way that you want, why not > just turn harddrake off under MCC -> services so it won't even check > for new hardware? I plug in a USB mouse and compact flash into the built-in memory card reader. If I don't leave harddrake active, those are not detected. I have done that on other installations though. Thanks for the idea. > > (just don't forget to turn it back on if you do add new hardware) > > -- > > /\ > Dark< > >Lord > \/ > > > -- Guy Rouillier
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